The Western Regional Group would like to invite you to our May talk, 'A Statistical Long Term Approach to the Collection and Management of Environmental Monitoring Data', to be held on the 15th May 2012. This talk will be presented by Kevin Wilson of CEMEX.
The importance of the environment has led to increasing amounts of legislation around the world, particularly in Europe. This legislation impacts on business in many ways but for the quarrying and waste management sector a significant part of this impact is through Environmental Permits. It is common for permits to require environmental monitoring to establish the impact of activities and to warn of detrimental changes. The consequence is that this legislation is leading to the need to collect increasingly large volumes of environmental data. The monitoring, together with the associated compliance assessment comes with a cost for business but unless the data derived from the monitoring are carefully managed, the money spent on the collection exercise is wasted.
This presentation will explain the development of the CEMEX strategy for data management that has evolved over the past 18 years, and provide an outline of the selected data management product EQuIS supplied by the US company Earthsoft. The forthcoming implementation of additional tools for event planning and scheduling, and field data collection will also be described.
Refreshments will be available from 6.00 p.m. followed by the evening lecture which will commence at 6.30 p.m. (for approximately 1 hour). The event is open to non-fellows, so please feel free to invite your colleagues or friends. As usual, the venue is the University of Bristol Earth Sciences Department
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